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A road-tested formula for improving your performance, from one of the business world's most successful - and productive - executives.

Robert C. Pozen taught a full course load at Harvard Business School while serving as the full-time chairman of a global financial-services firm. He's written six books and hundreds of articles, raised a family with his wife of more than four decades, and served on many boards of local charities and public companies. Pozen is a prince of productivity, a man who has worked smarter and faster than almost everyone around him for more than 40 years.

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Pozen shows that in order to be truly productive, professionals must make a critical shift in their mind-set: from hours worked to results produced. He helps people at all stages of their careers read, write, and make presentations quicker and more effectively. He provides professionals with practical tips on how to efficiently use their time in the office - while leading full and productive personal lives as well.

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Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?

This is a nice book worth reading. Most people figure all this stuff out by age 25. Therefore it is best for younger people. This does not mean us older folks could not benefit from reminders. The name implies a potentially huge paradigm shift in thinking. A better title would be "Consistent Productivity: Uncle Bob tells us how to Get Stuff Done"

Would you recommend Extreme Productivity to your friends? Why or why not?

Yes I would recommend this book to someone who has trouble getting out of their own way. Super achievers would not be challenged.

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Friendly voice easy to understand. That is probably why I gave the subtitle Uncle Bob tells us how to get things done.

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Listening to all of Robert Pozen's accomplishments makes me think his DNA is different than the rest of us mortals. His ability to absorb knowledge makes him an outlier. Not to be funny but my first inspiration was to give up. There is no way I could hold down as many jobs at one time as he did. Later in the book I realized he puts his pants on one leg at a time like everyone else. He seems like someone I would enjoy meeting. That is high praise coming from me.

Loved it

This was an extremely interesting and educational read. I recommend it to anyone who means to learn

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05-02-13

Very very Slow to get going

Very very slow to get going , 1 hour in and you are still being told what's in each chapter like a kind of expanded contents - That's the kind of filler stuff you might skim if reading the book physically but there is no need to read it all out in the audible version. So for Extreme Productivity skip the first hour at least!